Several newspapers reported on a study that found prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding makes kids smarter.
This is a large randomised trial involving more than 17,000 babies to see if a breastfeeding programme of promoting the duration and exclusive breastfeeding has an effect on childhood intelligence. The babies were followed up to 6 years. The decision of breastfeeding was the women's own choice.
The study found that children from the breastfeeding promotion group scored significantly higher than the controls on scores of vocabulary, similarities and verbal IQ.
Source: "Breastfeeding and Child Cognitive Development :New Evidence From a Large Randomized Trial" Archives of General Psychiatry. 2008;65(5):578-584. (f/t via Athens)
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